Re: R: Better landscapes; was: Italogallic in Zera, and other languages.

Mangiat wrote:

> 1) Yup. 2) Brunate, Como, Lombardia, Italia. 3) It'd be difficult to
> describe, but, generally, I see my village on the other side of the dale
> where I live. Here it's generally quiet mild (winter average 1°C, summer
> 20°C and more), but it rains a lot every season. In winter, when the trees
> of my little wood have lost their leaves, and the wind blows, I can see till
> Monte Rosa, in Piedmont, which means a great part of Northern Italy.
Oh, that's beautiful!  I miss Europe... I lived in Switzerland for two
years and took several trips to Italy: one to Rome, of course, the other
to Turin where I stayed at the Cenaculo (cheap, and it was Easter, and
the nuns spoke French).  From my little window in my tiny, neat room,
I could see the Alps to the west, which were lit up on Easter day by the
red rays of the rising sun.  It was spectacular.  In front of the
Cenacle
was a little park with a swing set and a row of shabbily elegant old
eighteenth-century houses.  Get up on the hill behind the Cenacle and
all of yellow-bricked and arcaded Turin is laid out before you with the
Mole dominating the cityscape.  Also some prominent signs for car
manufacturers!  It was heaven.

In Switzerland, I lived in Geneva in Plainpalais.  Not much to look at
out my attic apartment windows (an old grey stucco school house with
red tiled roofs to the west) and the back gardens of apartments to the
east, with just a little bit of the top of the granite streaked Saleve
poking up over the trees.  Go down the street and you see the Arve
that separates Plainpalais from Carouge.  A muddy river that merges
with the green Rhone on the other side of Plainpalais. Streetcars
(the number 12) running up and down.

No such picturesqueness in Rochester, unless you count the spectacular
waterfall in the downtown section, site of the old Mill Races.
Moldering
old buildings surrounding a deep, pockmarked gorge: train track over the
massive, dun-colored waterfall with its heavy sheets of water.
Rochester
General Electric building on the other side looking like a fortress with
many levels reaching down to the gorge--rain-soaked concrete and rusty
open-grid stairs.  Lots of Canada geese and gulls.  Raw weather.

Sally

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